These days when you go into politics you have to be ready for the camera. You have to be handsome, so must your family, the family of blandness, as I like to call them: your beautiful wife and picture perfect kids.

You must have an ego the size of the sun and a wallet to match.

Politicians have to really love the spot light because while they are on the election trail the whole world revolves around them. Constant parties, constant clapping, cheering and possibly jeering, but it is all about the politician, the star of the show. They are the center of the world, they look great, their family looks great and the camera's are always on them.

Basically, to be a politician you have to be a performer with good looks and a law degree. You pretty much must have planned your whole life to play this role, no inhaling for you, nothing too embarrassing to come careering out of your closet while office hunting.

These days the main reason to get into office is a) to make money b) to move into a lucrative lobbying role after you leave office so you can make more money.

With that in mind imagine how the poor congress person feels after the press go home after the campaign trail ends - devastated. Even if they win office, the public no longer seeks them out, the public have gone home to watch something else on television. The public pretty much stop recognizing them when they go to the mall unless there is some kind of fanfare for them so people will once again recognize them. Poor politicians love the spotlight and now they've fading back into obscurity.

However while you are ignoring your egotistical/self-centered film star, err I meant local representative, the corporations are not. The corporations are prepared to shower your local representative with plenty of attention.

Give your local representative all the attention they crave by demanding stuff from them, cos if you don't the corporations will.

In essence, because we demand pretty politicians because we have to look at them on television, we also require them to be great orators, who have lived perfect lives, but they are shallow because they've never done anything unplanned. They are rich and very likely never known real hardship or had to suffer like ordinary people might. It is unlikely they have even been bankrupt. They always had healthcare nor have they been hungry.

This is another peril of television. We now elect shallow politicians selected by the corporate media. We don't select politicians because they are like us in reality, we select politicians for whether they look good on TV - like they are actors in a movie. And like other celebrities they are always doing more and more absurd things to get out attention, especially the GOP.

When a man is chasing a woman he often drowns her in attention and when the guy thinks he's caught the fair maiden he stops giving her as much attention and the poor maiden wonders what the hell is going wrong? Doesn't he care about me anymore?

This can be extremely upsetting for the poor maiden.

Especially when the maiden is considering the man for a starring role in her life.

I am told by a reliable source that men make up their mind - 'I like her, I am gonna hang around, done deal', all is settled in his mind and he goes back to his regular schedule. This is the part of a relationship where people start organizing weddings so the maiden is still being showered with attention.

I am not keen on thinking that women's and men's brains are essentially different, but men's brains do seem to be geared towards concentrating on tasks, and women's brains are geared towards relationships. Whether this is the result of genetics or wiring that occurs as our brains develop, I am not sure, but I doubt its hard-wired because our brains are so adaptable.

The evolution story would go: Men are dedicated to a single task such as hunting, where the men are all old enough to take care of themselves and to cooperate, very likely in a hierarchical way. Women, on the other hand, are gathering nuts and berries and caring for the very young with other women and the elderly. She has to pay attention to many things and people.

The role of modern women is similar, in general, as her brain concentrates on relationships is quite possibly because her role in the household is to continually monitor her children and husband. Women have to constantly monitor where her children are to make sure they aren't killing themselves as they wander about the house oblivious to all its dangers. Meanwhile she has to monitor her husband to ensure he's getting the attention he needs so he will continue coming back to supply her with the money she needs to raise their children so he won't go off with his secretary.

As her children grow older the mother must continue to monitor her children to make sure they are eating enough, getting the grades they need, aren't getting into too much trouble, while continuing to monitor her husband to make sure he doesn't run off.

Most successful marriages have to find a way of satisfying the woman's desire to monitor her partner without being too intrusive. If the woman doesn't get the acknowledgement she needs, possibly destructive patterns will develop in the relationship. She depends on his love and she must know if he still cares. If she doesn't get the right signals, this is likely when their relationship will start to fail.

This is no doubt a problem for women in business. A woman in business with subordinates is probably going to over monitor those people working with her, especially those who she has the highest hopes for but have given her mixed messages. If the job isn't done well, she's going to be the one who is different from the rest, she's the one who is going to look worst amongst her peers, who, more-than-likely, will be male. Or if its her business, imagine how she will react if it looks like it is going to fail, its her investment, her life, imagine a mother watching her child die? Male managers tend to be much less involved in monitoring, letting others get on with their jobs. Of course there is always some form of reckoning in business.

Also there are few role models for women to choose from in the corporate world. Personally I've been extremely disappointed with the women in CEO positions in Silicon Valley who basically act like men. Women tend to operate with a flatter structure than men's standard hierarchical system and business is going to have to adapt to let women function in business.

The school I went to for high school (years 7-12 of my education) taught us critical thinking from year 7 onwards and one of the first assignments was a piece written by Skinner not that I can remember what it was about now.

Yes, 12 year olds tearing the logic of Skinner to pieces. But that was our schooling, we tore politicians, philosophers, scientists, doctors to pieces...

I remember my teacher telling us how most people don't think because it is hard, and I cannot think of anything more fun to do, by myself.

The first point of propaganda is to blame someone else as this piece of propaganda reminds us. Corporations have been telling us taxes are to blame for the sheer expense of living. Of all the money I spend through the year, tax is a miniscule portion, its what I spend on corporations, ie their profit is the lion's share of what I spend. There is also this myth that everything I buy from corporations is always optional. WRONG! Medicine, clothes, food, cars, fuel, furniture, toilet paper, soap, shampoo... all come from corporations. All of it necessary.

If I want to make money, I do so from corporations, i.e. the internet, computers... all come from corporations.
Corporations impinge on every aspect of my life.

Yet corporate propaganda has us so deceived they have us all running around blaming government, where corporations themselves have so corrupted our government. Meanwhile government is still meant to fund all its agencies like the FBI...., the executive branch, the military, the judiciary... while we complain about paying taxes! I know, lets blame the poor for the few lousy pennies we throw at them. 

Meanwhile every country on earth is eating McDonalds burgers, drinking coke or pepsi, most are wearing jeans, Nikes, flying in our planes, using iPads/Phones/Apple laptops, any laptop, google, Intel chips, MicroSoft windows, watching american movies and TV shows... The fact that our corporations are making vast amounts of money from all over the world is conveniently forgotten but our country is obscenely rich and the 1% instead tell us about the free-loading poor and how bad the government is.

Our corporations are brilliantly successful at propaganda, they whitewash themselves with propaganda or as they like to say advertising and this is where Skinner comes in and one of his major influences was Pavlov, the Russian with the dogs who were trained to salivate at the sound of a ringing bell. Corporations have been using behavioural psychology on us to make us give them our money gladly.

Meanwhile our government does not employ the slick gilded suave psychological treatment that corporations deliver to us in the form of MSM advertising, instead its rather ham fisted in comparison, sending our military in when behavioural psychology could be much better employed to manage things especially with terrorism.

If corporations can get people to buy tap water in bottles, or diluted battery acid (cola) to drink why do we have to send military in to end terrorism? Corporations have people with mad psychological skillz making people buy all kinds of shit, why isn't the military using these skillz on terrorists to end terrorism?

Why? Because corporations are also using their behavioural psychology on government to make it act like a bull in a china shop to keep itself distinguished from corporations. Corporations are looting government and us and making government go to war in the first place so corporations can benefit.

The founding fathers hated corporations and started a revolution because of them. They made very strict rules under which corporations could act after the revolution, but corporations corrupted the government and broke lose of the yoke the founding fathers put them under.

Recently I have been thinking about redefining my political views after a number of disturbing political events.

The first was Obama signing HR 933.

The second was receiving something like 5 emails begging me for $3 and $5 from the Democrats, namely Nancy Pelosi, who comes in at 13th richest person in congress with $26m. She's asking me for money?!?!?

I wish they would stop making politics all about money. The Democrats are finally in a position to make the elections to NOT be about money yet they persist. Currently state elections might as well be auctions and the federal elections are soon to follow. But its unlikely the Democrats will substantially change anything. Isn't it about time we made the next election about helping our fellow Americans? Because what the Democrats are doing now is continuing the merry-go-round. Here's my 2c worth of a solution.

As you all know I supported Obama in the last election because he was supporting women's rights. All you guys out there are rolling your eyes with criticisms like: but babies are dying in Afghanistan and women are being killed in Yeman because of drone strikes, Bradley Manning, what about NDAA and Patriot act etc etc...

I believe in feeding my fellow humans. I believe everyone should have equal access to healthcare, education, food and shelter. If you lose your job you shouldn't have to lose your home and you shouldn't have to lose your home if some spoiled brat in Wall St gambles badly. You shouldn't lose your retirement either.

I believe we should not start wars on behalf of corporate interests. The drug war should end. Prisons should be run by the govt, not a private corporation. Utilities should be owned by the state. The state is the people. Corporations should provide things the govt doesn't provide, stuff that can be traded cheaply on a controlled market. I don't believe there will ever be a free market because of survival of the fittest. Corporations must be kept in check by the government or the people. Corporations should be only tolerated as a source of employment for the people including the owners of the corporation which should ideally be the workers who operate the corporation, a source of income in the form of taxation for the operation of the government and hence the people. They should not dictate how the government works, in fact it should be the other way around.

The US shouldn't meddle in other countries business especially not at the behest of corporations.

But US corporations are so rich that there is no reason every US citizen shouldn't living in luxury. There is plenty of money its just the 1% don't want you to have any of it.

We shouldn't forget that the American revolution happened because of corporations. The founding fathers strongly controlled corporations but somehow they broke their yoke. Furthermore, the American constitution doesn't guarantee 'capitalism' and now we see the constitution is eroding the rights of American citizens except for the 2nd amendment, where gun manufacturers benefit.